plagueverb [ T ]
uk/pleɪɡ/us/pleɪɡ/C2 to cause worry, pain, or difficulty to someone or something over a period of time:
Financial problems have been plaguing their new business partners.
My shoulder's been plaguing me all week.
to annoy someone, especially by asking repeated questions:
The children plagued him with questions all through lunch.
He's been plaguing me for a loan of the book.
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Causing feelings of anger and displeasure
- aggravate
- aggrieve
- alienate
- anger
- annoy
- burn
- give sb the shits idiom
- go too far idiom
- goat
- grate
- hack
- hack sb off
- nose
- ruffle
- ruffle sb's feathers idiom
- set sb's teeth on edge idiom
- step/tread on sb's toes idiom
- stick in sb's craw idiom
- tee
- toe
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plaguenoun [ C or U ]
uk/pleɪɡ/us/pleɪɡ/C2 also the plague, the Plague bubonic plague , or any serious disease that kills many people:
Millions died of (the) plague.
a plague of sth
a large number of things that are unpleasant or likely to cause damage:
a plague of insects
humorous A plague of journalists descended on the town.
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Fevers & infectious diseases
- ague
- burn up
- chickenpox
- chlamydia
- dengue
- diphtheria
- Ebola
- EHF
- EVD
- feverish
- malaria
- meningitis
- pestilence
- polio
- quarantine
- scarlatina
- Staphylococcus infection
- typhoid fever
- yeast infection
- yellow fever
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Difficult things and people